The completion.commands config var must be set in either the system-wide
or global config file. The completion script does not read a local
repository config.
Signed-off-by: Todd Zullinger <t...@pobox.com>
---
Documentation/config/completion.txt | 3 ++-
Documentation/git.txt | 3 ++-
2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/config/completion.txt
b/Documentation/config/completion.txt
index 4d99bf33c9..4859d18e86 100644
--- a/Documentation/config/completion.txt
+++ b/Documentation/config/completion.txt
@@ -4,4 +4,5 @@ completion.commands::
porcelain commands and a few select others are completed. You
can add more commands, separated by space, in this
variable. Prefixing the command with '-' will remove it from
- the existing list.
+ the existing list. The variable must be set in either the
+ system-wide or global config.
diff --git a/Documentation/git.txt b/Documentation/git.txt
index 00156d64aa..638f4d6cc9 100644
--- a/Documentation/git.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git.txt
@@ -172,7 +172,8 @@ foo.bar= ...`) sets `foo.bar` to the empty string which
`git config
others (all other commands in `$PATH` that have git- prefix),
list-<category> (see categories in command-list.txt),
nohelpers (exclude helper commands), alias and config
- (retrieve command list from config variable completion.commands)
+ (retrieve command list from config variable completion.commands,
+ set in the global or system-wide config file)
GIT COMMANDS
------------
